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Latin
Etymology
From ēluō (“I wash away”) + -iēs.
Noun
ēluviēs f (genitive ēluviēī); fifth declension
- washing away
- discharge
- inundation, flood
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
References
- “eluvies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eluvies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eluvies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.